NEW DELHI -- At least three people were killed and two others rescued alive after a portion of a dilapidated building collapsed Monday in the western Indian state of Gujarat, police said.
The building collapsed in Veraval city of Gir Somnath district, about 456 km southwest of Gandhinagar, the capital city of Gujarat. (India-Building Collapse-Deaths)
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PHNOM PENH -- A Cambodia's leading think tank will convene the fourth Phnom Penh Forum this week with a focus on ASEAN's strategies in response to regional and global policies, said an organizer on Monday.
Scheduled for Oct. 8, the forum will convene leading national and international experts, policymakers, and academics from Cambodia, Germany, India, the Philippines, and South Korea, said Kin Phea, director general of the International Relations Institute of Cambodia, a think tank under the Royal Academy of Cambodia. (Cambodia-ASEAN-Forum)
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BANGKOK -- Thailand's headline inflation declined for a sixth successive month in September, driven by lower energy and food prices, official data showed on Monday.
The Southeast Asian country's consumer price index (CPI) fell 0.72 percent last month from a year earlier, decelerating slightly from a 0.79 percent decrease in August, according to the Ministry of Commerce. (Thailand-Inflation)
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JAKARTA -- Indonesia has expanded its coffee market with the shipment of 15 tons of Arabica coffee worth 3 billion rupiah (around 180,000 U.S. dollars) from the slopes of Mount Argopuro in East Java to Saudi Arabia on Monday.
Bagus Rachman, deputy for business affairs at the Ministry of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), said Indonesia is among the world's largest coffee producers, with more than 90 percent of plantations managed by smallholder farmers. (Indonesia-Coffee Exports) Enditem
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